It is his insistance on the self-reflecting - and hence political - character of art that sustains Spahlinger's music: it makes us sense the underlying orders of art, the hierarchies of language, while showing us their limitations. The ordering activities of the mind are seen as a political act.

It is his insistance on the self-reflecting - and hence political - character of art that sustains Spahlinger's music: it makes us sense the underlying orders of art, the hierarchies of language, while showing us their limitations. The ordering activities of the mind are seen as a political act.